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• Writhing on Ecstasy

  Acid House inspired even the most unlikely ravers to brave the dance floor. But did it leave anything behind once the high was over, asks Caspar Melville

• Burnt out case

  Stuart Sim descends into the murky world of the crime novel

• Pie in the sky

  Laurie Taylor tastes the delights of a very creative city

• Riot of metaphors

  Sally Feldman struggles with Jeanette Winterson’s symbolic prose

• Bloodletting

  Louise Doughty learns to live with her history

• Has doom had its day?

  Andrew Tudor on the decline of the disaster movie

• Secular songs

  Tony Russell sings the Blues

• Upper-crust manouvres

  Chris Paling joins high society

• Learning to fly: Laurie Taylor interviews Ralph Steadman

  Ralph Steadman tells Laurie Taylor how he became such a bother

• Losing the Plot

  Michael Byers’s new novel is a story looking for a plot, says Sally Feldman